Hello there!
My name is Patrick, and I'm a fourth-semester student at Humber College, located in Rexdale, Ontario, which is a suburb just west of Toronto. I'm in Humber's Wireless and Telecommunications Technology program, and am set to graduate in April of 2009.
In order to graduate, however, my classmates and I have to undertake a final project, and our project must have some sort of relevance to our program. In the past, some of the projects have included exchanging data packets wirelessly between two of Humber's buildings, and setting up a call centre using a Linux based system.
My friends, we are going to take our project to the next level.
Without getting into anything too complicated (there'll be plenty of time for that!), we plan to contact and communicate with the International Space Station. We are going to design and build an antenna, and we're going to apply to NASA to have someone up on the space station waiting for our transmission. We have dubbed this project Operation: First Contact.
The plan right now is to host a school-wide contest to see who has the best question for the astronauts. We're going to be giving this event as much media coverage as possible, which will include publicity through Humber College's own Radio Humber, as well as various newspapers and television stations around Toronto.
The purpose of this blog will be to keep everyone updated on the status of Operation: First Contact. It will be a place where we can share our experience with the world. If you're all lucky, I may even get into some pretty exciting highly technical stuff here!
So join me, if you will, as we take this trip into the future together...
